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Educating for Language and Literacy Diversity

Mobile Selves

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  • © 2014

Overview

  • Timely focus on issues of mobility and migration in relation to education and literacy
  • Chapters by an international line-up of authors offer both accounts of global ethnoscapes as well as local practices and processes
  • Extends and develops on The Future of Literacy Studies to push the field forward, and takes an ethnographic approach to examining literacy - a new method of research that is fast becoming established as an exciting interdisciplinary initiative with wide appeal for applied and exploratory research

Part of the book series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics (PADLL)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Introduction

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About this book

Educators and researchers in variety of locations increasingly encounter linguistically and socio-culturally diverse groups of students in their classrooms and lecture halls. This book examines everyday forms of talk and writing in relation to standardised forms and schooling expectations to suggest ways forward in educational discourse.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Cape Town, South Africa

    Mastin Prinsloo

  • University of Western Cape, South Africa

    Christopher Stroud

About the editors

Mastin Prinsloo is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His recent edited books include Literacy Studies and The Future of Literacy Studies.
 
Christopher Stroud is Professor of Linguistics at University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Professor of Bilingual Research at Stockholm University, Sweden. His recent publications include Style, Identity and Literacy: English in Singapore.

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